Книга: Burnett Frances Hodgson «Little Lord Fauntleroy»

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Серия: "Collins Classics"

When young Cedric Errol's father dies, he becomes heir to the fortune of his English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, and must move from working-class New York to England. Bad-tempered, cantankerous and bitter, the old man is slowly won over by the kind, generous and cheerful spirit of Cedric. When a plot arises to deprive Cedric of his inheritance and another pretender steps forward as heir, Cedric's friends in America become involved in order to thwart the challenger.

Издательство: "Harpercollins" (2012)

ISBN: 9780007449927

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Burnett, Frances Hodgson

▪ American author
née  Frances Eliza Hodgson  
born Nov. 24, 1849, Manchester, Eng.
died Oct. 29, 1924, Plandome, N.Y., U.S.

      American playwright and author who wrote the popular novel Little Lord Fauntleroy.

      Frances Hodgson grew up in increasingly straitened circumstances after the death of her father in 1854. In 1865 the family immigrated to the United States and settled in New Market, near Knoxville, Tennessee, where the promise of support from a maternal uncle failed to materialize. In 1868 Hodgson managed to place a story with Godey's Lady's Book. Within a few years she was being published regularly in Godey's, Peterson's Ladies' Magazine, Scribner's Monthly, and Harper's. In 1873, after a year's visit to England, she married Dr. Swan Moses Burnett of New Market (divorced 1898).

      Burnett's first novel, That Lass o' Lowrie's, which had been serialized in Scribner's, was published in 1877. Like her short stories, the book combined a remarkable gift for realistic detail in portraying scenes of working-class life—unusual in that day—with a plot consisting of the most romantic and improbable of turns. After moving with her husband to Washington, D.C., Burnett wrote the novels Haworth's (1879), Louisiana (1880), A Fair Barbarian (1881), and Through One Administration (1883), as well as a play, Esmeralda (1881), written with actor-playwright William Gillette.

      In 1886 Burnett's most famous and successful book appeared. First serialized in St. Nicholas magazine, Little Lord Fauntleroy was intended as a children's book, but it had its greatest appeal to mothers. It established the main character's long curls (based on her son Vivian's) and velvet suit with lace collar (based on Oscar Wilde's attire) as a mother's model for small boys (childhood), who generally hated it. The book sold more than half a million copies, and Burnett's income was increased by her dramatized version, which quickly became a repertory standard on the order of Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1888 she won a lawsuit in England over the dramatic rights to Little Lord Fauntleroy, establishing a precedent that was incorporated into British copyright law in 1911.

      Her later books include Sara Crewe (1888), dramatized as The Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1909), both of which were also written for children. The Lady of Quality (1896) has been considered the best of her other plays. These, like most of her 40-odd novels, stress sentimental, romantic themes. In 1893 she published a memoir of her youth, The One I Knew Best of All. From the mid-1890s she lived mainly in England, but in 1909 she built a house in Plandome, Long Island, New York, where she died in 1924. Her son Vivian Burnett, the model for Little Lord Fauntleroy, wrote a biography of her in 1927 entitled The Romantick Lady.

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Источник: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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  • Little Lord Fauntleroy — Fauntleroy redirects here. For other uses see Fauntleroy (disambiguation). infobox Book | name = Little Lord Fauntleroy title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Frances Hodgson Burnett illustrator = Reginald Birch… …   Wikipedia

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy — Little Lord Faunt|le|roy the main character in the 19th century children s book Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett. He is an American boy who becomes an English lord when his father dies, and has long ↑blond curly hair, neat …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy — Rosa Albach Retty in Burnetts Kleinem Lord Der kleine Lord (englischer Originaltitel: Little Lord Fauntleroy) ist ein Roman von Frances Hodgson Burnett. Er wurde nach seinem Ersterscheinen 1886 als Kinderbuch in vielen Sprachen sehr erfolgreich… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy — noun an excessively polite and well dressed boy • Syn: ↑Fauntleroy • Hypernyms: ↑male child, ↑boy * * * Little Lord Fauntleroy [Little Lord Fauntleroy] a children’s book (1886 …   Useful english dictionary

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy — /fawnt leuh roy / 1. (italics) a children s novel (1886) by Frances H. Burnett. 2. a pampered or excessively well behaved young boy resembling the hero of this book. 3. Also called Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. See Fauntleroy suit. * * * …   Universalium

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (аниме) — Little Lord Fauntleroy 小公子セディ (Little Prince Cedie) Жанр историческая драма …   Википедия

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